funere

See also: fuñere

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fūnere, ablative case of fūnus (death).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfu.ne.re/, [ˈfuːn̺er̺e]
  • Stress: fùnere
  • Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧re

Noun

funere m (plural funeri)

  1. (literary) bloodshed, carnage, slaughter
    • 1887, Giosuè Carducci, “La leggenda di Teodorico [The Legend of Theodoric]”, in Rime nuove [New Rhymes], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, Libro VI, lines 13–16, page 694:
      Quando il ferro d’Ildebrando ¶ su la donna si calò ¶ e dal funere nefando ¶ egli solo ritornò.
      When Hildebrand's iron ¶ descended upon the woman ¶ and, from the nefandous bloodshed ¶ he alone returned.

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Latin

Noun

fūnere

  1. ablative singular of fūnus
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